notebooklm

notebooklm is a skill for Claude Code from pantheon-org/tekhne. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,951 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-and-answer tool for Google NotebookLM notebooks, which are collections of documents you upload for source-based research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask questions about personal documentation or uploaded research material, manage the notebook library, and retrieve grounded answers.
Why use it?
It answers from your selected documents and includes citations, helping you avoid relying on unsupported general information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to ask questions about personal documentation or uploaded research material, manage the notebook library, and retrieve grounded answers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/notebooklm
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pantheon-org/tekhne --skill notebooklm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pantheon-org/tekhne

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,951 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.01951
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00195

Measured 9d ago against content hash a927cc0fd49e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (scripts/__init__.py, scripts/ask_question.py, scripts/auth_manager.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/documentation/research/notebooklm/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NotebookLM Research Assistant

Query Google NotebookLM to get Gemini's source-grounded answers from your uploaded documents. Each question opens a fresh browser session, retrieves the answer exclusively from your knowledge base, and closes.

When to Use This Skill

Trigger when the user:

  • Mentions NotebookLM explicitly
  • Shares a NotebookLM URL (https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/...)
  • Asks to query their notebooks or personal documentation
  • Wants to add documentation to the NotebookLM library
  • Uses phrases like "ask my NotebookLM", "check my docs", "query my notebook"

Mindset

NotebookLM is a grounding layer, not a search engine. Three principles govern every interaction:

  1. Ground every answer in sources — answers come exclusively from uploaded documents; never synthesise from general knowledge when querying a notebook.
  2. Never guess notebook content — use Smart Add (query first) to discover what a notebook contains before labelling it.
  3. Follow up until complete — one query is rarely enough; check every answer for gaps and issue follow-ups before synthesising for the user.

When Not to Use This Skill

  • The user needs general web search or LLM knowledge — use standard Claude responses instead
  • No NotebookLM URL or notebook ID is available and authentication is not yet set up
  • The user wants data analysis or code generation — NotebookLM is for document Q&A only
  • The target content is not uploaded to any NotebookLM notebook

⚠️ CRITICAL: Add Command — Smart Discovery

When adding a notebook without full details, query first to discover content:

# Step 1: Query the notebook about its content
python ./scripts/run.py ask_question.py \
  --question "What is the content of this notebook? What topics are covered? Provide a complete overview briefly and concisely" \
  --notebook-url "[URL]"

# Step 2: Use discovered information to add it
python ./scripts/run.py notebook_manager.py add \
  --url "[URL]" \
  --name "[Based on content]" \
  --description "[Based on content]" \
  --topics "[Based on content]"

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 222 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A a927cc0fd49e

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notebooklm is a skill published in the GitHub repository pantheon-org/tekhne (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,951 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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